Prayers Appreciated!

Hey y'all! I wanted to get on here real quick and just ask for you prayers. Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:30 am, I have my Teacher Education Program Interview. I have been waiting for this for quite a few months now and am ready to go in tomorrow and give it all I got. I honestly could not imagine any other career path that is meant for me. Last night, the sermon at church was so motivating. It was over not just having a career but it actually being a calling. We should bring Jesus into our work space and it will become our worship space. How awesome is that! I know most people don't look forward to Mondays, but as I was sitting there listening to I could not help but be excited for my future career as a teacher. And that is when I truly was reminded of how much I am meant to be a teacher. I know that God has placed this calling on my heart and I can't wait until the day that I get to be called "teacher." 

So if you all wouldn't mind, tomorrow please be praying for me! I am not nervous right now because I do know that God has it all under control, but anytime you have an interview it can be nerve racking. Please pray that I go in knowing that God is there and that I give all the effort I can in my writing prompt and interview. 

I hope you all are doing well! Have a great week :)

Danielle

The Countdown Begins.

Hey guys! I hope everyone has had an amazing week! :) Today after my two hour class I had to go get some shots for Haiti... and did I mention I HATE shots! But I do believe that God blessed me today because I was supposed to get two shots today but I found out that one of them can be taken through medication rather a shot. So that was SOO exciting! Monday I have to go get my flu shot and another shot.. hopefully it will all go well. I am just ready to get these shots over with! 

I seriously can't believe that in 4 weeks from today I be headed down to Haiti. I have started getting nervous only because it is finally hitting me! I am going out of the country... to a third world country! I know that this is going to be a one in a lifetime experience and I can't wait to see what Gods plan is for me going on this trip. I will definitely keep you all up to date throughout the next few weeks. Please be praying for me, in that I will prepare myself in this amazing experience. It is going to be a completely new experience for me and I will be going to a culture that is far from what I am used to. 

I think that is it for tonight. I am going to plan out tomorrow some posts that I want to do and have them prepared! I know that I haven't done very well with posting more than once a week... but that WILL change! :) I hope you all have a great night and I will talk to you all soon. 

Goodnight! 

xoxo

Danielle

His love is AMAZING!

As I sit here typing this I am sitting on the roof with my roommates, just gazing up at the moon being reminded of Gods love for us. We just got back from Synergy, CSFs Thursday night service, and it was just an amazing reminder! :) Tonights sermon was "What are the odds... that you'll get a second chance?" We've been going through this series for three weeks now and an amazing pastor finished it up today. It seriously was a great reminder of how God truly loves us NO MATTER WHAT! Like seriously... we sin and make mistakes and don't always follow Him, but His love for us NEVER changes and it NEVER will! How amazing is that?!? I've really had an amazing week just feeling God around me and His love. It is truly a blessing to see how far I've come from last year. 

I am so blessed to have this amazing community while still being in college. I pray for each of you and you all know God and realize how much HE loves you and is ALWAYS there for you! 

Here are some verses that were read out tonight that I thought were soo inspirational, and I wanted to share them! Goodnight y'all! 

"I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, 

and I will not remember your sins." 

-Isaiah 43:25

"I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."

-Hebrews 10:17

Born Again.

Good morning! I sit here so thankful this morning because yesterday at church {today is the actual date day though} it had been one year since I was born again. As I was listening throughout the whole service I just saw there in awe of how far I've come and how much my life has changed all because I decided to give my life over to God.

Around this time last year I could feel God tugging on my heart. After watching Reese, my boyfriend, get baptized I felt that I should too. But then I sat there and was like "No, Danielle. When you got baptized when you were little you did it because you felt you had to because someone else did... Not this time!" So I continued to remind myself that this decision isn't made when I feel I'm supposed to by other people, but when I feel God wants me to and I feel him tugging and pulling on my heart.

As you all know I am involved with CSF at my school. Being a leader means that you are in a core group {bible study group} with about 10 girls. I remember how much I felt that Lord tugging on my heart the week before I was baptized. I went to my core group and the message we read and what we talked about just made me decide it was time. I told my core group that I wanted to get baptized and then I just started crying. It was so overwhelming and all the girls were there for me like no one else had ever been. They started, jokingly, trying to figure out where we could go baptize me right then & there, haha {they even said we could do it in the bathtub...} But I knew I wanted to wait for church that weekend.

Each night leading up to my baptism I would wake up singing "My whole life is yours, I give it all..." Which is absolutely CRAZY! Because it was the song that was playing while I was baptized. I've realized that is just what I need to always say to God when I am confused, wanted to take control of the situation/life, or am just lost.

Last night at church {I say last night because I go to a service called 608, yes it is at 6:08, and it primarily has college students but anyone is welcome} our pastor was talking about when he was born again, and it hit me that this time last year I was born again! I started to think back to how much everything had changed and to how much I had grown as a person and relied more on God. I can't describe to you all how it felt last night realizing how much of a better person I am because I have HIM in my life. He seriously has kept me safe and he truly is always there for me. But last night they sang that song again {seriously... did they know?! haha}, Arms Wide Open, and I just started crying! It really was an overwhelming experience for me because I can feel/see that my life is better.

Now I sit here preparing myself to go to Haiti and experience something I have never seen before in my life. I sit here reading devotionals and reading the bible on a daily basis. I sit here just talking to God whenever I want, rather thinking it just has to be in prayer while at church or while I'm alone. I sit here more of a Godly woman than I have ever been. I sit here renewed and ready to take on life because I know HE is in control. I sit here proud of who I've become.

I pray that you never lose sight of how much you need God and that he is in control and you don't have to worry about a thing. I pray for everyone reading this that has not come to know God yet and that you let him tug and pull at your heart like he did mine, and that you let him in!

I hope you all have a great day!

Danielle

I'm Back... I Promise!

Hey y'all! So I am soo sorry for not posting anything for a while! I {once again} did not mean for it to go this long without ANYTHING! But I am back, I promise. :)

I wanted to just catch you all up with what I've been up to. Two weekends ago, as you all know, I went to Nashville for the UK vs. WKU football game! I had never been to Nashville or even an away football game, so I was excited to have a night trip down to a new city! We got to Nashville pretty late at night so we didn't do anything but drive around town just to take it all in. Then the next morning we got ready and found a nice BBQ place {that was amazing!} to eat lunch at, and then made our way to the stadium to get our tickets! It was a pretty fun, except for the annoying fan that was in front of us and the fact that we LOST! Here are some pictures...

Then school really started up and I had to get a lot of reading done... like 2-3 chapters for each class! I am not the best reader and it is so hard for me to get motivated and actually read through chapters. But I have done better than I thought I could and have taken notes while reading as well! {Once I post this I am actually heading back to the book and reading a chapter for my class tomorrow} 

I also had to help get ready for one more huge event at CSF... The Water Balloon Fight! In my last post I showed you all a video of The Worlds Largest Water Balloon Fight from 2012. We did not get the record for the amount of people that attended but we did for the amount of water balloons filled! It was definitely a fun, but long night because we have to stay until after the fight is over to clean up the 200,000+ water balloons... which is not a fun job but I have realized that we should be grateful for being able to have this opportunity and use the field. The sunset that we got to witness while unloading/counting the balloons was absolutely beautiful! Pictures below, and here is a link to the video for this year... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ14XqczxY

Finally, the day after our water balloon fight I had to wake up 6 hours later to go to our first home game of the season! It was a great game and I was actually surprised at how well our team played.. We WON!!! :) I did get sunburn while at the game since it was a noon game, and still have my wonderful looking shorts burnline {is that a word?} on my leg! But I really enjoy going to UK games with Reese, it is really something that we both have together and I actually finally enjoy games and {somewhat} understand what is going on! 

Monday night we also went to a UK basketball game where our {amazing} alumni came back to play in a charity game! It was so fun watching our old players but was actually kind of sad because we will never have them back! But overall its been a pretty busy, fun week and I think it is just going to be getting busier and busier... especially with Haiti coming up in a little over a month! But I must get back to my reading. I hope you all have been doing amazing and that school/work/life is going great for you all!! 

Goodnight! 

Danielle

Update!

Soo.. I really didn't mean for it to be almost a whole week before I posted something again! Its been crazy around here with work, school starting, Kweek, and getting all the things on my to-do list checked off! And I haven't had anything that I've been wanting to post lately. So I am going to just tell you about what has happened in my week so far!

I've basically been running errands all week. I had to finish getting ready for school and was preparing for Haiti. Tuesday I filled some water balloons while everyone I knew was at shift {a freshman service CSF puts on every week}. 

Then Wednesday night CSF hosted for the first time a Meal Packing event. Our goal was to pack 100,000 for Haiti... But we actually got 110,000. It really was humbling being able to be apart of it because I will be in Haiti in just two months! 

Here is a link to read more about it! 

http://ukcsf.org/meals/ 

Also on Wednesday I started my two online classes. I only am taking 12 hours this semester, so two online & two on campus. It was a little overwhelming at first because I kept getting confused as to what assignments went to what class because they are similar! 

Thursday I went to my first class on campus! It went really well and I think it'll be a good semester {except for the fact that all my grade is is 4 exams.. a lot of studying for me!}. After work Thursday I was headed home and on my way I had to pick something up from a place I used to work at. I got back in the car and it wouldn't start!! :/ I tried calling everyone I knew and of course no one at the time was answering their phones... Finally I got someone to come over and after two and a half hours and AAA, we had a new battery in my car and I was ready to go!! Needless to say I was exhausted!!! 

Today I had another class that's two and a half hours long! I headed to work, and now my boyfriend, his sister, and I are headed to Nashville for the WKU vs. UK football game! It's our season opener tomorrow, but we decided to go down tonight and make a day of it tomorrow!! 

{Reese and I on our way down to Nashville! His sister was sleeping!} 

Hope you ladies have had a good week! Happy Labor Day weekend!!

Danielle